2024 Baseball Season

[+ Lucky]

This is the teasing time of the year. I miss my daily baseball watching so much that even bits of information can keep my interest. Spring Training starts next week. More baseball news and then soon I'll be back to watching the games.

https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-spring-training-schedule

[BuffaloKyle]

Jenny Cavnar has been hired as the first lead play-by-play announcer for a MLB team. Unfortunately it's Oakland so no one really gonna be watching.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/jenny-cavnar-makes-mlb-history-as-1st-primary-woman-play-by-play-announcer/ar-BB1ieujQ?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

[+ Lucky]

Say it ain't so, Sho!

[+ Lucky]

Shohei speaks!

Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani (大谷翔平) issues statement amid gambling scandal involving former interpreter

WWW.FOXSPORTS.COM

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Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani issued a statement following the firing of translator Ippei Mizuhara after an allegation of 'massive theft' due to questions...

 

[samhexum]

50 minutes ago, Lucky said:

Shohei speaks!

Samhexum yawns!

[+ Lucky]

1 hour ago, samhexum said:

Samhexum yawns!

Reading your posts makes you yawn? Haha

[samhexum]

I saw a headline that the Dodgers signed Will Smith to a $140,000,000.00 contract.

Does that have anything to do with his upcoming Bad Boys movie with Martin Lawrence?

[Welshman]

Following the success of baseball in other parts of the world last year, there will be a number of regular league games in London this year. The games will be held on June 8th and 9th between the Mets and the Phillies at the London Stadium (host of the 2012 Olympics). Whilst these will be shown in the United States, there is still a question mark about whether they will be shown in the United Kingdom (as is the case with the NFL games in London).

[samhexum]

18 minutes ago, Welshman said:

The games will be held on June 8th and 9th between the Mets and the Phillies at the London Stadium 

and my sister and brother in law will be in attendance...  less than three months after seeing Tony Orlando's farewell performance...  what an exciting year 2024 is turning out to be for them!

Tony Orlando and Dawn.MOV

Edited March 28, 2024 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[BuffaloKyle]

I haven't played Beat the Streak on MLB.com in many years but I'm trying again this year. You can pick two guys a day to get a hit to get your streak number up faster. My one pick was Luis Arraez who went 0 for 6. Ouch!

[samhexum]

New MLB record:  HR on opening day 5 years in a row.

Surprisingly, 3 others did it four years in a row.  Yogi Berra, Gary Carter and Todd Hundley (oddly, three catchers)

Nobody knows where his interest in working out comes from.

I suggest we ask his father:  (first posted in 2021 by @purplekow)

 

Edited March 29, 2024 by samhexum
just for the hell of it

[+ Lucky]

19 hours ago, samhexum said:

I saw a headline that the Dodgers signed Will Smith to a $140,000,000.00 contract.

Does that have anything to do with his upcoming Bad Boys movie with Martin Lawrence?

Poor Sam.

[+ WilliamM]

On 3/25/2024 at 9:55 PM, samhexum said:

Samhexum yawns!

Respectfully  he is heir to Babe Ruth.

 

[+ Lucky]

3 hours ago, WilliamM said:

Respectfully  he is heir to Babe Ruth.

 

Truthfully Babe Ruth does not compare to Shohei.

[+ WilliamM]

I wasn't around  then

[+ purplekow]

On 3/29/2024 at 12:48 AM, samhexum said:

New MLB record:  HR on opening day 5 years in a row.

Surprisingly, 3 others did it four years in a row.  Yogi Berra, Gary Carter and Todd Hundley (oddly, three catchers)

Nobody knows where his interest in working out comes from.

I suggest we ask his father:  (first posted in 2021 by @purplekow)

 

All three with strong connections to the NY Mets,   The Mets after having lost many opening days in a row at there inception, now own the best opening day winning percentage despite this year's loss.  If only they played as well for the other 161 games.  

Edited April 5, 2024 by purplekow

[BuffaloKyle]

Mets two wins in a row! Now the question is will the Marlins ever win a game?

[BuffaloKyle]

On 4/5/2024 at 10:02 PM, BuffaloKyle said:

Mets two wins in a row! Now the question is will the Marlins ever win a game?

They won a game!

[mike carey]

2 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

They won a game!

Sounds a bit fishy!

[samhexum]

On 3/29/2024 at 12:48 AM, samhexum said:

New MLB record:  HR on opening day 5 years in a row.

Surprisingly, 3 others did it four years in a row.  Yogi Berra, Gary Carter and Todd Hundley (oddly, three catchers)

He hit his 6th HR today.  He leads the majors.  He has 6 RBI.

[+ Lucky]

I was watching the make up game between Cleveland and New York, the latter ahead 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth. The count on the batter is 3-2 and the pitcher throws ball 4. Cleveland would now have the bases loaded except that the umpire called the ball, clearly outside, a strike. No bases loaded. No excitement. The last batter limply grounds out. Yankees win.

[samhexum]

20 minutes ago, Lucky said:

I was watching the make up game between Cleveland and New York, the latter ahead 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth. The count on the batter is 3-2 and the pitcher throws ball 4. Cleveland would now have the bases loaded except that the umpire called the ball, clearly outside, a strike. No bases loaded. No excitement. The last batter limply grounds out. Yankees win.

you should see what Angel Hernandez did in Texas last night.

[+ WilliamM]

Whitney Herzog manager of the St Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals has died at92

He invented Whitey Ball with the Cards: excellent defense, few home runs and hundreds of stolen bases with Ozzie Smith Willie McGee and Vince Coleman.

 

The Cards won the World Series in 1982 and Herzog guideed St Louis to two other World Series 

 

I loved to listen to Whitney. He made be love baseball More than even.

Rest in Peace , my hero 

[samhexum]

1 hour ago, WilliamM said:

I loved to listen to Whitney.

She had an amazing voice, but I didn't always love her material.

[+ WilliamM]

1 hour ago, samhexum said:

She had an amazing voice, but I didn't always love her material.

A silly response